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The 2008 film Black August (film) focuses on the experiences of prison activist George Jackson. A book named Black August: 1619 – 2019 by Gloria Verdieu released in 2019. The Black Collective launched the Black August Mixtape in 2019. In visual art, the virtual exhibition "Black August" opened at the Crenshaw Dairy Mart in 2020. [4] [5] [6 ...
August 21 is the 233rd day of ... 1831 – Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a ... 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
Butchart, Ronald E. "Black hope, white power: emancipation, reconstruction and the legacy of unequal schooling in the US South, 1861–1880." Paedagogica historica 46.1–2 (2010): 33–50. Crouch, Barry A. "Black Education in Civil War and Reconstruction Louisiana: George T. Ruby, the Army, and the Freedmen's Bureau."
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is the largest denomination within Mormonism and has a long history of racial exclusion. [21] According to Cassandra L. Clark, one reason why polygamy was a part of the Mormon culture was to promote the growth of the white race. [21]
National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. National White Wine Day. August 5. ... National Black Cat Appreciation Day. National Nonprofit Day. ... August 21. National Spumoni Day.
Later-advocates of education were characterized, specifically women educational advocates, as fighting for eradicating prejudice and promoting Christian love, training black women and men to be educator-activist who would fight for civil rights, and, lastly, cultivating moral and intellectual character in children and youth. [4]
The oldest black Baptist church in Kentucky, and third oldest Black Baptist church in the United States, the First African Baptist Church, was founded about 1790 by the slave Peter Durrett. [15] The oldest Black Catholic church, St. Augustine in New Orleans, was founded by freedmen in 1841.
1992 – United States Marshals engaged a fugitive in a shootout at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, beginning a twelve-day siege. Lots of self-published sources 1983 – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. was assassinated moments after stepping off a plane at Manila International Airport from his self-imposed exile in the United States.